195 examples of wry in sentences

"Youyou see for yourself, Millie, what's dead can't be made alivenow, can it?" She nodded, acquiescing, her lips bitterly wry.

By-and-by it became too serious, the jest was wry-faced and rang false.

A very tall man he was, long and lean and grim of aspect, with a mouth wry-twisted by reason of an ancient sword-cut, and yet, withal, he had a jovial eye.

Whereat this strange man, sitting cross-legged upon the sward, smiled his wry and twisted smile and looked upon Beltane with bright, approving eye.

The long blades whirled and flashed and rang upon the stillness; and ever, as they fought, the stranger smiled his wry smile, mocking and gibing at him, whereat Beltane's mouth grew the grimmer and his blows the heavier, yet wherever he struck, there already was the stranger's blade to meet him, whereat the stranger laughed fierce

And so the tall, grim stranger turned him about, smiling his wry smile, and strode away through the green.

But now he thought no more of women and the ways of women, but rather of this stranger man, of his wry smile and of his wondrous sword-play; and bethinking him of the great sword, he yearned after it, as only youth may yearn, and so, sighing, fell asleep.

Thereafter Beltane turned him and, galloping back, drew rein where the stranger sat, cross-legged, watching him with his wry smile.

At length Beltane raised his head and beholding the sun well-risen, halted his company beside a stream that flowed athwart their way, and sitting thereby, summoned to him the fournamely, Walkyn and Roger, Giles and Eric of the wry neck; and while they ate together, they held counsel on this wise: BELTANE.

A wry look might at any time call down upon a luckless child a hundred lashes.

" Abe made a wry face, took up the tiny bottle of "Jockey Club," and rubbed a few drops on his hands.

" Duchemin knelt beside the man, who welcomed him with open eyes and a wry smile that was almost as faint as his voice.

" "And how amusing if he were arrested en route," Duchemin supplemented with a wry smile.

"Then 'A' doesn't stand for anything at all?" "Oh, yes; it stands for a Jones," said the boy, making a wry face.

She sometimes wondered with wry humour if Miss Whalley could have enlightened her as to her husband's whereabouts; but that lady's attitude towards her was invariably expressive of such icy disapproval that she never ventured to put the wonder into words.

I had once a wry aunt, which may make me dislike the phrase.

" "Where?" She made a wry face: "Hazel Gresham's.

" Burns made a wry face.

Don't you think that's the best way?" He made a wry face.

" "Confound it, you forget the time" "Mon Dieu, are we to compare ze Hindoo harem wiz ze American feest slugger?" cried the count, with a wry face.

"I say, that hits me hard," said the duke, with a wry face.

As soon as I had got it down, I found it very unpalatable; upon which the Knight observing that I [had] made several wry Faces, told me that he knew I should not like it at first, but that it was the best thing in the World against the Stone or Gravel.

He advertised in the Tatler that he had been 35 years in the practice of 'couching cataracts, taking off all sorts of wens, curing wry necks and hair lips without blemish, though never so deformed.'

" The newspaper men pulled wry faces.

7 He being proudly mounted, Clad in cloak of Plymouth, Defied cart so base, For thief without grace, That goes to make a wry mouth. 8 Nor did he like the omen, For fear it might be his doom One day for to sing, With gullet in string, A hymn of Robert Wisdom.

195 examples of  wry  in sentences